Dean O'Banion

Dean O'Banion (8 July 1892-10 November 1924) was the boss of the North Side Gang from 1919 to 1924, preceding Hymie Weiss.

Biography
Dean O'Banion was born on 8 July 1892 in Maroa, Illinois to a family of Irish descent, and his family moved to the crime-ridden Kilgubbin neighborhood of Chicago's North Side after his mother's death in 1901. O'Banion and his friends Vincent Drucci, Bugs Moran, and Hymie Weiss robbed goods for the city's black market, and O'Banion started a bootlegging operation in 1920. On 19 December 1921, he took part in the first liquor hijacking in Chicago, and his Irish and Polish North Side Gang took over the North Side and Gold Coast neighborhoods of Chicago. O'Banion stirred up bad blood with the Chicago Outfit when he sold alcohol on Johnny Torrio's territory without giving him a cut of the action, and he also attracted bootleggers to his turf; he refused Torrio's offer to take over some brothels, as O'Banion was an opponent of prostitution. From 1923 to 1924, O'Banion fought against the American Mafia as a result of the murder of his henchman Joe Miller by Al Capone in retaliation for Miller's attack on Jake Guzik. On 10 November 1924, Frankie Yale, John Scalise, and Albert Anselmi entered O'Banion's flower shop and fired two bullets into his neck, two into his chest, and a final shot into the back of his head as he lay on the floor. Hymie Weiss took over the gang after his murder.